# Deaths in April 1992
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1992.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## April 1992
### 1

* Robert Edward Bell, 73, Canadian nuclear physicist and academic.
* Carl E. Duckett, 69, American intelligence operative, lung cancer.
* Michael Havers, Baron Havers, 69, British barrister and politician.
* Seymour Mamedov, 20, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Nigel Preston, 28, English drummer, drug overdose.
* Walter Andreas Schwarz, 78, German singer.
* Konstantin Sergeyev, 82, Russian danseur, artistic director and choreographer.
* Edward Smouha, 82, British track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

### 2

* Nugzar Asatiani, 54, Soviet Olympic fencer (1964).
* Juanito, 37, Spanish footballer, traffic collision.
* Hjalmar Karlsson, 86, Swedish sailor.
* Paula Kelly, 72, American singer.
* Gabriel Tiacoh, 28, Ivorian sprinter and Olympic medalist, meningitis.
* Tomisaburō Wakayama, 62, Japanese actor (Lone Wolf and Cub), heart failure.
* Dib Williams, 82, American baseball player.

### 3

* Aaron Bohrod, 84, American painter, liver cancer.
* Nie Fengzhi, 79, Chinese Army Lieutenant general.
* Juan García Hortelano, 64, Spanish writer, poet and literary critic, lung cancer.
* Ivan Rukavina, 80, Yugoslav Army general and politician.
* Karl Tunberg, 85, American screenwriter (Ben-Hur).

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* Vincenzo Bertolotto, 79, Italian rugby player.
* Albrecht Fleckenstein, 74, German pharmacologist and physiologist.
* Vintilă Horia, 76, Romanian writer.
* Salgueiro Maia, 47, Portuguese Army officer, cancer.
* Rixi Markus, 81, Austrian-British contract bridge player.
* Samuel Reshevsky, 80, Polish-American chess player.
* Arthur Russell, 40, American musician, AIDS.

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* Daniel Campbell, 66, Canadian politician.
* Takeshi Inoue, 63, Japanese footballer.
* Molly Picon, 94, American actress (Fiddler on the Roof, The Cannonball Run, Car 54, Where Are You?), Alzheimer's disease.
* Modjeska Monteith Simkins, 92, American social rights and civil rights activist.
* Sam Walton, 74, American businessman, founder of Walmart, multiple myeloma.

### 6

* Isaac Asimov, 72, Russian-American science fiction author (Foundation, Galactic Empire, Robot), heart failure.
* Patrick Desmond Callaghan, 65, Pakistani air officer.
* Edith Katherine Cash, 101, American mycologist and lichenologist.
* Vakhtang Chabukiani, 82, Soviet ballet dancer.
* Donald Harding, 43, American murderer, execution by gas chamber.
* Peter Hayman, 77, British diplomat and intelligence operative.
* Herman Francis Mark, 96, Austrian-American chemist.
* Edward S. Montgomery, 81, American journalist, pneumonia.
* Jim Pomeroy, 47, American artist.
* Erling Wikborg, 97, Norwegian politician.

### 7

* Ace Bailey, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Horst Niemack, 83, German general during World War II.
* Clovis Ruffin, 46, American fashion designer, complication from AIDS.
* Alix Talton, 71, American actress, lung cancer.
* Antonis Tritsis, 55, Greek politician and urban planner.
* Frank Walsh, 89, American golfer.

### 8

* Daniel Bovet, 85, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1957), cancer.
* John Cherberg, 81, American football coach and politician.
* Ronald Eyre, 62, English theatre director.
* Käte Hamburger, 95, German Germanist, literary scholar and philosopher.
* Nelson Olmsted, 78, American actor.
* Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson, 85, Canadian mathematician.
* Sam Rosen, 70, American comic book artist and letterer (Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men).

### 9

* Charles Ginsburg, 71, American engineer and inventor of the videotape recorder, pneumonia.
* John Kissell, 68, American gridiron football player.
* Ivan Lund, 62, Australian fencer.
* Gale W. McGee, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1959–1977).
* Theodor Schieffer, 81, German historian.
* Alfred Szklarski, 80, Polish author.
* Erik Werba, 73, Austrian classical pianist.

### 10

* Charles Mitchill Bogert, 83, American herpetologist and museum curator.
* Hermann Eppenhoff, 72, German football player and manager.
* Şahlar Hüseynov, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action .
* János Kajdi, 52, Hungarian boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.
* Sam Kinison, 38, American comedian and actor (Back to School), traffic collision.
* Cec Linder, 71, Polish-Canadian actor (Goldfinger, Quatermass and the Pit, Lolita), pulmonary emphysema.
* Peter D. Mitchell, 71, English biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1978).
* William Paling, 99, British politician.

### 11

* James Brown, 72, American actor (The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), lung cancer.
* Adele Dixon, 83, English actress and singer, pneumonia.
* Heinrich Lausberg, 79, German linguist.
* Frank Maher, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Eve Merriam, 75, American poet, liver cancer.
* Fakhraddin Musayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Alejandro Obregón, 71, Colombian artist.
* Gerard Tichy, 72, German-Spanish actor.
* Josip Vidmar, 96, Slovenian literary critic, essayist, and politician.

### 12

* Ilario Bandini, 80, Italian racing driver and racing car manufacturer.
* Makineni Basavapunnaiah, 77, Indian politician.
* Ettore Gracis, 76, Italian conductor.
* Georg Haentzschel, 84, German pianist, broadcaster, composer and arranger.
* Gunter Jahn, 81, German U-boat commander during World War II.
* Deane Keller, 90, American artist and academic.
* Jean Émile Reymond, 79, Monegasque politician.
* Robert L. Wheeler, 71, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.

### 13

* John Bruno, 27, American gridiron football player, skin cancer.
* Charles Patrick Fitzgerald, 90, British historian and writer.
* Eddie Fontaine, 65, American actor and singer, esophageal cancer.
* Feza Gürsey, 71, Turkish physicist, prostate cancer.
* Brian Oulton, 84, English actor.
* Daniel Pollock, 23, Australian film actor (Romper Stomper), suicide.
* Ray Roberts, 79, American politician.
* Maurice Sauvé, 68, Canadian politician.
* Firudin Shamoyev, 30, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action
* Stuart Surridge, 74, English cricketer.
* Martin T. Williams, 67, American music critic and writer.

### 14

* David Miller, 82, American film director, cancer.
* Artur Mkrtchyan, 33, Nagorno-Karabakh politician, shot.
* Marshall D. Moran, 85, American Jesuit priest and missionary .
* Valeh Muslumov, 23, Azerbaijan soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Sammy Price, 83, American pianist, heart attack.

### 15

* Otis Barton, 92, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.
* David Bosch, 62, South African missiologist and theologian, traffic collision.
* William Bridges-Maxwell, 62, Australian politician.
* Howard Sylvester Ellis, 93, American economist.
* Hans Maass, 80, German mathematician.
* Frank Richards, 82, American actor.
* Aleksandr Sevidov, 70, Soviet football coach and player, cancer.
* James Zumberge, 68, American geologist and academic.

### 16

* Gilbert Alsop, 83, English footballer.
* Neville Brand, 71, American actor, emphysema.
* James Gallagher, 82, American soccer player.
* Andy Russell, 72, American singer, complications from a stroke.
* Bhalindra Singh, 72, Indian cricket player.

### 17

* Maurice Buckmaster, 90, British Special Operations Executive operative.
* Arthur Calder-Marshall, 83, English novelist, essayist, and biographer.
* Arkady Chernyshev, 78, Soviet ice hockey, soccer and bandy player.
* John DeVries, 76, American lyricist, interior designer and illustrator, complications after surgery.
* Skeets Herfurt, 80, American jazz musician.
* Hank Penny, 73, American musician.

### 18

* H. V. Kershaw, 73, British television scriptwriter and producer.
* Russinho, 89, Brazilian football player.
* Pat Thomson, 51, English-Australian actress, aneurysm.
* John Thorp, 79, American aeronautical engineer.
* Paul Zaeske, 46, American gridiron football player.

### 19

* Pierre Descamps, 75, Belgian politician.
* Frankie Howerd, 75, English actor and comedian, heart failure.
* Batia Lishansky, 92, Russian-Israeli sculptor.
* C. C. Too, 72, Malaysian diplomat.

### 20

* Marcel Albers, 24, Dutch racing driver, racing accident.
* Marjorie Gestring, 69, American Olympic diver (1936).
* Orval Grove, 72, American baseball player.
* Benny Hill, 68, English comedian and actor (The Benny Hill Show), coronary thrombosis.
* Jimmy Lennon, 79, American boxing and professional wrestling announcer.
* Peter Murray, 72, British art historian and academic.
* Johnny Shines, 76, American musician, stroke.
* Llewellyn Thomas, 88, British physicist and mathematician.
* Gian Carlo Wick, 82, Italian theoretical physicist.

### 21

* Mel Branch, 55, American gridiron football player.
* Louis Diercxsens, 93, Belgian field hockey player.
* Gerald Feinberg, 58, American physicist.
* Robert Alton Harris, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by gas chamber.
* Väinö Linna, 71, Finnish author, cancer.
* Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, 74, Russian monarch and head of the Imperial Family.
* Ioan Totu, 60, Romanian politician.
* Nigel Williams, 47, English conservator, heart attack.
* Ernest Yust, 64, Soviet-Hungarian footballer and coach.

### 22

* Steffi Duna, 82, Hungarian-American film actress.
* Pat Hills, 74, Australian politician.
* Kang Keqing, 80, Chinese politician.
* Harsono Tjokroaminoto, 79, Indonesian political figure.

### 23

* Tanka Prasad Acharya, 80, Nepali politician, prime minister (1956–1957), kidney disease.
* Ronnie Bucknum, 56, American race car driver, diabetes.
* Deron Johnson, 53, American baseball player, cancer.
* Hilda Kuper, 80, Rhodesian social anthropologist and writer.
* Satyajit Ray, 70, Indian filmmaker, heart failure.
* Omar Shendi, 76-77, Egyptian footballer.
* Michael Wagner, 44, American television writer and producer (Hill Street Blues, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Capitol Critters), brain cancer.
* Bror Östman, 63, Swedish ski jumper and Olympian.

### 24

* Valdemārs Baumanis, 87, Latvian basketball player.
* Elio Chacón, 55, American baseball player.
* Samuel L. Greenberg, 93, American politician.
* Milton Rosenstock, 74, American conductor, composer, and arranger.

### 25

* Ernesto Balducci, 69, Italian Catholic priest and peace activist, traffic collision.
* Bob Hazle, 61, American baseball player.
* Brian MacLeod, 39, Canadian musician, brain cancer.
* George Mantello, 90, Hungarian diplomat and anti-fascist.
* Alfonso Flórez Ortiz, 39, Colombian racing cyclist, murdered.
* Yutaka Ozaki, 26, Japanese musician, pulmonary edema.
* Lin Richards, 83, Australian politician.
* Danny Tuijnman, 77, Dutch politician.

### 26

* Livio Abramo, 88, Brazilian-Paraguayan visual artist.
* Julian Amyes, 74, British film director and producer.
* Jack Dunphy, 77, American novelist and playwright.
* Edgar Lewis, 90, Australian politician.
* Alberta Vaughn, 87, American actress, cancer.

### 27

* Sol K. Bright Sr., 82-83, American musician.
* Harlond Clift, 79, American baseball player
* Olivier Messiaen, 83, French composer and ornithologist.
* Gerard K. O'Neill, 65, American physicist and space activist, leukemia.
* Jack Pritchard, 93, British entrepreneur.
* James Maude Richards, 84, British architectural writer.

### 28

* Hasan as-Senussi, 63-64, Libyan crown prince, head of the Libyan royal family (since 1969).
* Francis Bacon, 82, Irish-British painter, heart attack.
* Andria Balanchivadze, 85, Georgian composer.
* Émile Carrara, 67, French road and track cyclist.
* V. K. Gokak, 82, Indian Kannada writer and scholar.
* Parashkev Hadjiev, 80, Bulgarian composer.
* Allan Highet, 78, New Zealand politician.
* Elfed Davies, Baron Davies of Penrhys, 78, Welsh politician.
* Brian Pockar, 32, Canadian figure skater, AIDS-related complications.
* Iceberg Slim, 73, American novelist and pimp, liver failure.

### 29

* Mae Clarke, 81, American actress (Frankenstein, The Public Enemy), cancer.
* Chandrabati Devi, 82, Indian actress.
* Ghulam Faruque, 92, Pakistani industrialist and politician.
* Stephen Oliver, 42, English composer, AIDS-related complications.

### 30

* Agha, 78, Indian film actor, cardiovascular disease.
* Preston Bassett, 100, American aerospace engineer.
* Otto Bräutigam, 96, German diplomat and lawyer.
* Ramiz Ganbarov, 29, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
* Toivo Kärki, 76, Finnish composer, musician, and music producer.
* Katsuo Osugi, 47, Japanese baseball player.